PRESENTATION

Enabling Increasingly Dense fiber-to-chip Connections in Datacenters

Co-packaged optics (CPO) require low-loss and reliable fiber connections to the optical engines (or PICs) as well as increasingly dense configurations given the need for more bandwidth and interconnections. Achieving one or more terabits per second per millimeter at the PIC edge is one example of a density metric that is being pursued, which would be particularly challenging when DR or parallel optics are used with standard fibers since there are four times more signal fibers density than with FR or multi-wavelength optics. This presentation will describe fiber-to-PIC densities needed for different CPO implementations and provide insights on optical connection mechanisms.

Benoit Fleury

Corning

Benoit is currently Director of CPO Business Development with Corning Optical Communications. Before to joining Corning, he led the Product Line Management team at iBwave, an indoor RF planning software company which Corning acquired in 2015. Earlier on in his career Benoit drove product growth in other telecom companies including Nortel and EXFO, and developed Lynx Mobility, a cellular infrastructure & service company in northern Canada. Benoit holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill and Concordia Universities in Montreal, is a Senior IEEE member and judges annually at Concordia’s John Molson School of Business’ international MBA case competition.